02/19/13
As promised: my blog-the Tuesday edition, part 4 - The Odyssey of
this Writer. Here's the link: http://fritz-franke.tumblr.com/. Posted once a week and
kept short. Follow if you dare & click if you like for a heckava ride.
Wow! Being fifty- … uhhh … my age … and going back to school –
even if it’s just taking a bunch of creative writing classes, was a huge deal
to me. Sure, I’ve taken courses/classes/instruction on IT subjects to advance
what I do for a living, or should I say … to support my writing till I make the
big-time. So what type/age/whatever of ‘other’ students would be in my classes?
What’ll it be like having a real professor again? My first class in the fall of
2007 was ‘The Art of Creative Writing’ and my professor was a LOT younger than
me. All of the students were younger than me. Self-doubt entered the picture
and I questioned myself about this quest. But being in the first class and
actually enjoying the learning environment, I stayed. I received a homework
assignment and decided to see where this path led me.
Remembering the actual assignment would be impossible but trust
me – it had to do with writing. I had decided to use each assignment as a way
to write a particular chapter for the first book. I do remember that one
assignment was to have your main character show emotion from either an extreme
high or an extreme low, but you couldn’t say what was causing it – you had to
show it. It’s one of the many rules writers abide by – Show, don’t Tell. I completed the first assignment and turned
it in at the next class. Not knowing how it would be received/critiqued/graded,
I would have to go another whole week to get any feedback. No one had laid eyes
on any of my writing of this book so I was really antsy about this assignment.
Next week – my anticipation of the next week.
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